dapper + powerbook g4 = no sound?

[Larry Grover]

Matthew Nicholson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 23:50 -0500, Larry Grover wrote:
>> Matthew Nicholson wrote:
>>> just did an install of dapper on my powerbook g4, and, simply put,
>>> everything went great. after a bit of hacking around the air port
>>> extreme is working well and a few glitches i saw on a previous install
>>> have cleared up.
>>>
>>> however, currently, there is no sound. alsamixer/gnome-mixer have both
>>> been used and the "normal" things are turned up. i even booted back into
>>> OSX to make sure teh volume there wasn't set very low incase it was
>>> hardware controlled. no dice.
>>>
>>> any advice/help?
>>
>> On my new iBook G4, running dapper, I do not get any sound unless I 
>> unmute/select the "PC Speaker".  You can do this from a terminal window 
>> (run "alsamixer", user the right arrow key to select "PC Speak", and hit 
>> the "m" key to unmute), or from the gnome-volume-control (make sure "PC 
>> Speaker" is checked, under the "Switches" tab).
>>
>> This setting seems to get reset periodically, maybe when I update the 
>> system, and I lose sound until I repeat the steps above.  Maybe doing 
>> this will restore your sound?
>>
>> Now, do you mind sharing what you did to get airport extreme working?
>>
>> I've spent literally hours trying to get it working -- googling, 
>> reading, compiling, etc -- and it just doesn't work for me.
>>
>> I have the firmware installed correctly and I can modprobe the bcm43xx 
>> modules with no errors.  I can configure the interface manually with no 
>> errors.  I can scan (iwlist eth1 scan) and I see my access point.  I can 
>> ping the interface (eth1) address.  I can see traffic on my LAN 
>> (tcpdump).  As far as I can tell, the routing table is set correctly.
>>
>> I cannot get a dynamic address (dhclient times out), or ping my gateway 
>> or any other address on my LAN or the internet.  DNS lookups time out, 
>> and, of course, I cannot connect to any host on my LAN or internet.
>>
>> I'd really appreciate any tips or pointers.  I'd really like to get my 
>> airport extreme card working.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Larry
>>
> Thanks for teh advice, however, it doesn't seem to do much :-9 oh well.

Rats... sorry this wasn't any help.

> as for the airport extreme, my issues was that, when running a dmesg
> with bcm43xx already inserted (and teh firmware in teh right place), i
> was getting an error/warning complaining that ieee80211_crypt_wep
> couldn't be found or inserted. this is after i had compiled/install
> softmac. so, i did a make uninstall on softmac, and did and apt-get
> install ieee80211-source, which gives you a tar ball in /usr/src. you
> extract it, and compile it. (need linux-headers-`uname -r` installed to
> compile) and form there on out, everything has gone smoothly. i only
> need to compile the ieee80211 stack for wep, on the schools unencrypted
> network, everything was working. hopefully this helps you.
> 
> 

Thanks for the suggestion on installing and compiling ieee80211-source. 
   Unfortunately, I already tried that, and it didn't help.  But I did 
just stumble across an archived mailing list post with a tip that, 
finally, let me get the bcm43xx working!

I need to specify both the connection rate and the MAC address of the 
access point.  I'm not sure if this is a general requirement, or just a 
peculiarity of my hardware (mid-2005 iBook G4, 12" 1.33 GHz, BCM4318).

The following will bring up my airport extreme:

sudo modprobe bcm43xx
sudo ifconfig eth1 up
sudo iwconfig eth1 rate 11M
sudo iwconfig eth1 ap MAC:address:of:the:access:point
sudo dhclient eth1

I'm connecting via an open network, so I don't need to worry about 
configuing WEP or WPA.

Regards,
Larry